Show I t I Tho Thorough r 0 ugh W Work 0 r k 0 of f J Japs l' l P IS f One of the most mast unique and inter- inter f features of the the Japanese pl plan plan n F r- r of campaign Is of the tasks assigned to the doctors Maj Louis Livingstone Seamon Seamon of the United United United Unit Unit- ed States army says In his recently published ed book The medical officer is omnipresent You will find him in countless places where in an American Ameri Amerl- r can or British army he has no pl place ce He is as much at the front as in the rear He is with the screen of the scouts couts with his microscope and chemicals chemicals chemi chemi- i 1 cals testing and labeling w wells so that the army to follow shall drink no contaminated con water When the scouts reach a town he immediately Institutes institutes I a thorough examination of its sanitary condition and if contagion or infection is found he quarantines andi and i places a guard around the dangerous V district Notices are posted so that the approaching column is warned and no soldiers soldIers' are billeted t r danger exists Microscopic blood tests I. I are made in all ail fever cases and bacr bacteriological bac- bac jf r experts fully equipped r i 4 form part of the staff of every diT di- di 1 T visional headquarters 1 The medical officer also j nies Hies foraging parties and with the commissariat officers samples the various va va- ri rious l foods fruits and vegetables v sold by the natives along the line Une of march long Jong before the arrival of the army If the food is tainted or the fruit is overripe overripe overripe over over- ripe or the water requires boiling notice is posted to that effect and such is the respect and discipline of every soldier soldier- from ro ri the commanding officer to the file in the ranks that obedience to its orders is absolute The medical officer is Is' also found in camp lecturing the man on sanitation and the hundred and one details of ol personal hygiene hygIene how how to cook and to eat and when not to drink or to bathe bathe even e en fo to the paring a and d cleansing cleans ing of the finger nails to prevent danger danger dan dan- ger from bacteria Long before the outbreak of hostilities hostilities hos has he w was was s with the advance agents pf the arn testing provisions that were being collected for the troops that were were t to follow J As a acon consequence consequence con con- sequence of ot- these I precautions he is not found treating th thousands of cases of intestinal diseases and other contagion contagion con con- contagion and fevers that follow Improper subsistence and arid neglected sanitation diseases that have brought many campaigns to disastrous |